access models and forms within modules

Question

Hi Stackers,

What is the best way to access my models and forms from a controller of a module?

Let's explain with "pictures":

/application/module/storage/controllers/IndexController.php

needs to call readAction in the class called storage_Model_Files in

/application/module/storage/models/Files.php

I've made this app's dir structure and these forms and models with zf.sh (Zend_Tool).

I've read about all sorts of ways of manually including these files. I want to lazy load them much like everything is done automatically with the default module. I can't seem to find how in the docs.

Does that make sense?

I have:

resources.frontController.moduleDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules"

in my application.ini file. So I can access my controllers fine.

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Use autoloading: http://zendframework.com/manual/en/zend.loader.autoloader-resource.html

Answer 2

You have to add the module explicitly. Your options are:

1.) add this to your application.ini

resources.modules.storage = "" 

and create a file /application/module/storage/Bootstrap.php

class Storage_Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap
{
}

2.) Create a method in your Boostrap.php

protected function _initAutoload()
{
    $loader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
    $autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array(
        'namespace' => 'Storage_',
        'basePath'  => APPLICATION_PATH . '/storage',
    ));

    return $autoloader;
}